BJI Newsletter, April 2011, #135

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BJI Newsletter, April 2011, #135
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Play Better Blackjack — Learn to Beat the Casinos!

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MY 100-YEAR STORM by JPB

"Over my 15-year stint, I have had one blackjack trip that stood out where I took a horrendous loss. This one stint was my equivalent of a 100-year blackjack storm (the storm that statistics and probability predict will occur once in a hundred years) or the equivalent of calling the flip of a coin wrong 7-10 times in a row. I'll describe my 100-year blackjack storm and look-back in a way that might be useful to other card counters..."

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BLACKJACK vs A COIN FLIP by Basil Nestor

"What's the edge on blackjack? You probably know this by heart. If you play a game with bad rules and you use only a mediocre near-optimal strategy, the casino's advantage climbs to about 2%. With perfect conditions and without counting, the edge is less than 1%, and if you count cards or use other advanced techniques, you get a player edge pushing up to 1%, and very rarely higher. Therefore, the whole range is about 3%. Sounds pretty tight, right? And near 0% seems like a coin flip. Unfortunately, your actual results may not be so smooth..."

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PENNSYLVANIA SAYS NO TO 6-5 by Mark Gruetze

"Pennsylvania blackjack players have reason to rejoice. The state intends to keep its player-friendly blackjack rules, the executive director of the Gaming Control Board said..."

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TOP 10 STUPIDEST CASINO-THEFT STORIES by Vinny DeCarlo

"People have often asked me about the biggest card counter crook or card cheater that I ever caught when I worked in casino surveillance. I usually respond with "if you only had any idea what was walking out the back doors, you would wet your pants. Therefore, with time on my hands, I thought that you would like to know what happens behind those glamorous casino walls. Here's a peek..."

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LACK OF DISCIPLINE LEADS TO DESTRUCTION-Part 5 by Ralph "Silver Fox" Stricker

"We met around 8pm and started at a $100 minimum table. M.R. showed the "juice" he had, as he "TOLD" the pit boss that I was not a big player and asked for me to be able to bet a minimum of $50.00. I couldn't believe it when the Pit Boss said "Okay."..."

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ATLANTIC CITY BLACKJACK REPORT by Frank and Alene Scoblete

"Now the good weather is slipping in and the Queen of Resorts looks to the spring and summer seasons with hope and, yes, a little dread as well. Despite the fact that the new Revel Hotel and Casino has been given a jolt of over a billion dollars to complete its building and the fact that Landry's Golden Nugget is about to take over the Marina with a planned 150 million in renovations, the outlook for some of the other casinos is decidedly not good. In fact, the outlook for all of the casinos is not that hot either..."

Read Scobletes' complete article.

BLACKJACK ANSWER MAN by John Grochowski

"A reader shares an interesting and hilarious story that occurred while playing blackjack, and Grochowski answers questions about splitting 10s against 6 upcard, and surrendering a 16..."

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DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHERE YOU SIT? by Henry Tamburin

"You stroll through the crowded casino, itching to play blackjack, when you spot two adjacent tables with open seats. The first table has an opening at the first-base position, while the second table has an opening at third base. Where would you sit?..."

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THE HOUSE IS NOT A WHO by Frank Kneeland

"The House always has the edge." "Casinos weren't built by winners." How many times have we heard statements like these? I would venture to guess quite a few...

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TEXAS HOLD'EM A TO Z: "U" IS FOR UNDER THE GUN by Bill Burton

"Texas Hold'em is a positional game. Your position is determined by where you are sitting in relationship to the dealer button. Unlike games like stud where the betting order changes with each betting round, the order is fixed in Texas Hold'em. Before the flop, the person to the left of the big blind bets first. This position is known as being "Under the Gun," and it is the worst position to be in at a full-table limit game..."

Read Burton's complete article.

BLACKJACK TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE by blackjacktournaments.com

"Check out the schedule of major blackjack tournaments in April and May by region in our Blackjack Tournament Report courtesy of blackjacktournaments.com..."

Read the tournament report.